None of your customers are complaining about viruses, their network being slow or strange things happening on their new PDAs and laptops; is it time to take the afternoon off? Maybe, but before you do, make sure things will look as good next week by making sure you know what you’re defending against. Microsoft has a set of resources at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc514043.aspx covering the current threat landscape and showing ways to help protect your clients and their customers, including analyses of data collected from millions of users, strategies, mitigations and countermeasures. read more
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The Business
Do you get your cut from the cloud?
Cloud computing stands to be the most significant transformation for the IT industry in a generation. Analysts predict that within a few years, almost all companies will run at least some of their IT in the cloud; a minority will run all their computing that way.read more -
Network
Network monitoring is good for business
What you need to keep customer networks running; free network management tools perform basic tasks on smaller networks but pay-for tools give you more data and customisation options.read more
Lessons in Space and Time
Sponsored Feature - Filing cabinets cost moneyWhen financial climates take a turn for the worse, businesses look for ways to reduce overheads, maximise resources, and increase profitability.
Rebuilding a NAS appliance RAID array
Disks fail, and RAID arrays need rebuilding. Be prepared for the worst – and keep your clients’ data safe.
Storage: Buy, Build or Restore?
Over the last 20 years we have seen the cost of hardware and software plummet. For the most part, smaller companies can now run the same computing solutions as large companies.
What you can do with the second SBS server licence
Small Business Server Premium Edition comes with a licence for a second server (running Windows Server 2008 rather than SBS).
GPO for IE8
If you’re using Active Directory and Group Policies to administer computers on customer networks, suggest they adopt Internet Explorer 8 to get more than 100 new Group Policies that you can use to maintain a stable configuration.
Selling White Label Services
Reselling services represent a significant – and growing – part of the business for many IT consultants. Margins on IT hardware, and to a lesser extent, software, have fallen steadily. The fees that can be charged for higher-value work, such as code customisation and application testing, have also come under pressure, not least because of competition from suppliers in markets such as India or Eastern Europe and Russia.
Offering Consultancy on Email Compliance Issues
If you ask your customers what they know about legislation involving data, the chances are you’ll be horrified by the answers.
Dirtection Inc: episode 7
In which the Secret Service gets to grips with bonkers boffins and hallucinogenic horseflies.
Managing Mobile Devices: Anywhere, Anytime
Remote support is one of those bugbears that is never going to go away. At least with PCs and laptops you know where you are, and remote desktop tools make it easy to log in and take control of a user’s PC. You can grab logs, check files, and see just what your users see.
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